This course was designed for medical professionals, faculty, students and individuals interested in learning about:
• Specific benefits of reductions in drinking in clinical trial data.
• Evaluating the range of positive functional outcomes that correspond to non-abstinent reductions in drinking and maintenance of non-abstinent recovery over time.
• Key limitations of an abstinence-only model for the treatment of alcohol use disorder from a public health perspective.
Guest Speaker: Katie Witkiewitz, Ph.D.
Dr. Katie Witkiewitz is a Regents’ Professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico with a joint appointment at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has authored five books and over 230 peer-reviewed publications.
Witkiewitz has conducted numerous empirical studies on the efficacy and effectiveness of mindfulness-based relapse prevention as a treatment for substance use disorders, prediction of relapse following treatment for alcohol and drug use disorders, and mechanisms of successful treatment out- comes following mindfulness-based interventions to prevent alcohol and drug use.
